Ruby Tears Crabapple Tree

Pink flowers cover the pendulous branches each spring on this graceful small tree.

Ruby tears crabapple tree.

Opening from red buds masses of fragrant pink blossoms appear in mid spring just as the foliage is unfolding. Crabapple trees in bloom are a dramatic feature of spring. Ruby tears flowering crab is a dense deciduous dwarf tree with a strong central leader and a rounded form and gracefully weeping branches. The burgundy tinted foliage add contrast and color all season long.

This smaller more confined weeping crabapple selection is proof that big landscape presence can come in smaller packages. Attractive dark red fruit. New growth leaves are shades of orange and yellow with a tinge of red that mature to lime green. Ruby tears is an exciting new crabapple tree with a dramatic broadly weeping habit burgundy flushed spring foliage and raspberry pink blossoms that fade to a soft pink.

The architectural branch patterns and attractive bark of crabapples create. The blossom color varies from white and every shade of pink to deep rose reds. A seedling found at beverly nursery in indiana. Topping out at a mere 10 with a slightly wider spread ruby tears sports pools of luminous pink blossoms in early may backed by colorful foliage on naturally weeping pendulous branches.

The ruby tears tree has small burgundy tinted foliage with pink flowers. The green canopy is brightened in the fall with yellow orange red or maroon fruit. Naturally weeping form similar to louisa and burgundy green foliage much like prairifire. Their appeal is not limited to the flowers.

Its average texture blends into the landscape but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition. Smaller grower than the species this tree is a spectacular hardy spring bloomer with showy orchid pink pea like flowers early to mid spring. Petite in size and graceful in form this small unique ornamental tree fits in any landscape. Each spring the pendulous branches are covered with pink blossoms followed by small dark red fruit in summer.